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Bazzite surpasses 30k active users, gaining 5k users since two months ago πŸŽ‰ (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Generated via ublue's countme script https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Here is Fedora's upstream graph to compare:

A graph showing that Bazzite has reached 31.6k users while other Fedora Atomic Distros show marginal growth
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Bazzite is absolutely great, if you just want a very reliable system that just works and goes out of your way. I lean nowadays way more into recommending Bazzite to new Linux users, since there is literally not much to initially set up, no matter the hardware. Gaming works perfectly fine and any regular users software needs get easily satisfied by the Bazaar.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am too much of a tinkerer for Bazzite, but it’s still the distro I recommend the most for new users. If they decide they need more freedom, then Fedora KDE is the next step I recommend.

    Most Windows expats should be completely happy with Bazzite.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I really wanted to like Bazzite but after a couple of months I couldn't handle it. I really need the tinkering πŸ˜†.

    I'm considering it for the kids though once we get a family PC, but I also really want things like being able to switch between Gnome and KDE and other stuff like that which makes the experience nicer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Absolutely. I switched to Bazzite and it is everything I wanted from the switch. So painless. I have yet to find a game I want to play that wont play. Ive been using it for all my normal computer tasks. Its been the best transition to linux I’ve experienced as ive tried in the past but always hit some sort of snag

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It might be beginner friendly, but it doesn't mean you can't do pretty much anything else you'd want to do on any other distro. It's just a different process.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agreed. I'm a software dev and I also have a ton of weird and niche hobbies I use my PC for and I've never run into anything I felt like Bazzite prevented me from doing. Even if they didn't offer the super convenient developer edition.

    For example, the immutable root partition doesn't stop me from adding udev rules in /etc.

    In fact, DistroBox gives me the freedom to use any package from any distro I want, including the Arch AUR.

    Anyone who says Bazzite is "too limiting" doesn't understand how it actually works.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I've been using it for 3mo now. Mostly no issues, except for installing packages without flatpak, and also the weird random slowdown to freeze (I'm assuming memory management?) I mostly use my machine for learning freecad, watxhing jellyfin, using a browser, and playing Genshin (relaxing to play while people bitch at me on my phone job)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I also installed it on two machines now and really like it. But I have exactly the same freezing issues. I already increased my zram swap to 8GB (having 32GB RAM), but long running idle games still freeze the whole system after a while. Could be a memory leak. I also tried to tweak the config so that applications are automatically closed when on low RAM, but that still didn't help yet.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I havent tried it but I cant see how it can be better than arch Linux with its AUR. Almost all software that exists is right there in its latest version.

    Fedora feels a lot more limited. I think just because bazzite is novel, a lot of people are trying it now. I dont think the popularity will last. People will understand that they get many issues with it and go back to a normal Linux.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You have complete access to the AUR via Distrobox. Also, how do you conclude that it has "many issues"? I do get that Bazzite might not be for everyone, but please, elaborate.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Since its immutable, I imagine that a lot of apps may not "just work" and need special packaging or configuration. But I havent used it. What would you say? Apps just work or they need anything special? Will Flatpaks work?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Flatpak works just fine, as it installs to the user directory and not any immutable part of the filesystem. Any non-flatpak apps can be ran in distrobox.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Distrobox seems to be a container... I wonder how well that works with applications following system themes and being able to be seen in app launchers.

    Its interesting but my experience is that usually you do get some issues with solutions where apps are not native.

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